Hello from Zhongli, although it may be my last week here (or maybe I have a long time left here, speculations and bets have begun to be made). haha. I think people always guessing transfers is amusing, and I'm definitely not "too good" to participate in making guesses of who is going where and who is training, etc etc. It's usually all in good Preparation day fun as districts hang out. I personally hope I leave, just based on the fact that I have been in Zhongli for 6 months now, my entire mission...but if I don't leave, I won't be too upset because I really love this area and there are a lot of people here to teach. So we'll find out what happens on Friday night, and I'll be back here online emailing on Monday, so don't forget to write me before then!
In other news, this last Friday's baptism went pretty well. Jasmine and Petrea Ge were baptized, but Leilani wasn't. She had a few hang-ups that were understandable. We'd like to see her baptized this week, she will call us tonight and tell us after she talks to her classmates when she thinks a good time would be...but even if in the end it's not this week, I know she will get baptized sooner or later. So I'm not too worried about that. Petrea was really cute at the baptism. She was like "I'm Ge Boya, and I think getting baptized is really AWESOME." Then she sat down. haha. Kids. Jasmine is also doing really well, she likes to hang out with our awesome Wu Mujun, who tuesday night just showed up to our lesson, we hadn't even told her about it, because she wasn't at church Sunday, but she must have heard from Jasmine we were coming over, and she came too. That's dedication. Jasmine also just really likes the missionaries, so that's good. She came early to church Sunday because she said her house is boring, so she just sat around well Sister Chen and I ate, and she talked to us and stuff. She also has started attending the Advanced English class on Wednesday, and thinks the teachers are hilarious. I think that is due to the fact that her High School English class is too easy, since she lived in Australia growing up and is half Australian, and even though rarely uses her English these days, shes really still quite good at it.
As for Chen Yiting, she's set-up for Saturday night and she's so super excited. She's such a funny 19 year old girl, so I'm excited for her. She's been like, I'M SO EXCITED FOR SATURDAY...whenever we see her. Haha. Really cute.
Besides that though, not a lot has been happening, we teach an okay amount of lessons and just try to invite everyone to learn about the church. This last week we must have had a really good increase in key indicators, because the Assistants called us and told us that they and President were very happy with the work we were doing in Zhongli, and they encouraged us to keep working hard, and that they could see our hard work is really paying off. That through our work and efforts many people were coming to know their Savior. That's the 3rd time we've received a call like that from the Assistants on my mission. I'm not sure how often they do it, but it's nice to hear from them, albeit a little stressing in that it's just a little pressuring that twice that it has happened, our numbers were inevitably going to drop that next week in some ways. But it's not necessarily a bad drop. So yeah, our mission has very good Assistants that follow-up. I seriously have never seen people so good at following up as the Assistants. If we tell them anything, they remember and ask how that is going the next time they see us. Their memories are almost uncanny. Gotta respect crazy good memories like that.
So yeah! Time is running out, but don't forget, write by next week on Monday, your Sunday night I think. I'll tell you then what happened Saturday, and with move calls. I'm excited to be moving into transfer 5. It's almost a halfway point for sister's I think. Time passes fast. Also with almost being in Taiwan 6 months now, I'm noticing I'm understanding a LOT more than I used to and I'm able to pretty much teach every lesson 1-4 decently and clearly. Cool! :) I can't say "It all sounds Chinese to me" anymore...how sad because I used that phrase a lot before my mission, but now Chinese makes sense...everything not Chinese sounds Korea, or Indonesian, or Vietnamese around here. Now my ear hears the difference between Asain languages.
Until next Monday,
Fu jiemei
Sister Flora Bruno
